Trish Hennessy

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney

Today we uncovered that just under half of the budget 2025 cuts at Dept immigration, refugees and citizenship are just cuts to dental and prescription coverage for asylum seekers. Read about it in the @ottawacitizen.com or the full @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

B.C. budget’s hidden austerity and tax increases put fiscal burden on low-income households - CCPA BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves.

BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves.
By @marclee.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social
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BC residents have shrinking access to family doctors, despite more doctors - CCPA Primary care access is declining in BC. With a new provincial budget on the way, how has spending on doctors affected it?

I'll be in #BCpoli Budget 2026 lock-up with @marclee.bsky.social

I'll be watching all things health care, including primary care

BC is spending big on its new family doc model, but it's not delivering

Will we see a pivot to Community Health Centres?

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B.C. throne speech dedicated to victims, community of Tumbler Ridge British Columbia Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia opened a new session of the legislature on Thursday with a speech from the throne dedicated to the people of Tumbler Ridge, saying that they are 'suffering unim...

Instead of a typical BC throne speech, it was dedicated to the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting

The BC budget drops Tuesday

I’ll be in the budget lock up with @marclee.bsky.social

We’ll have complete budget analysis, including health care and social spending

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Research Assistant - 4 Month Term Research Assistant Research · Ottawa, Ontario The Organization: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, ...

We just put up the application for this summer's progressive economics fellowship. Its a paid 4 month term to work with me at @policyalternatives.ca and 100 other progressive policy experts to create this year's Alternative Federal Budget. Apply now: ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/48

Every American needs to watch this:

880 CHED - Edmonton Breaking News, Traffic, Weather and Sports Radio Station Edmonton Breaking News, Traffic, Weather and Sports Radio Station

I’ll be on the Shaye Ganam Show (880 CHED in Edmonton and QR 770 in Calgary) at 1030am MT / 1230 ET

Tune in to hear me discuss Alberta‘s new two-tier healthcare legislation, and what it means for the rest of Canada

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#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Bone chilling.

My preliminary take on the new stats on federal job job cuts . Which depts and services could be hit hardest? There's plenty more analysis to come @policyalternatives.ca

Dual practice means two-tier health: critics - Medicine Hat News zmason@medicinehatnews.com Experts say Bill 11, the Health Statutes Amendments Act, represents the foundations for the first two-tier health-care system in Canada. Although the province says it is dra...

Medicine Hat News fact checked the AB govt's argument

This article confirms, as does our report, that NB does not allow two-tier health care like #ABpoli

“Physicians in the province either work in New Brunswick’s public health system...or they work privately"

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New research out today from @policyalternatives.ca on the groceries and essential benefit. Read the full details at www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

New report from me + @poliscirish.bsky.social

Bill 11 brings US-style two-tier health care system with a private health insurance market for care covered under the Canada Health Act

It appears that the insurance industry ITSELF has shaped the legislation
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Bravo

We polled millionaires across 20 countries, and the vast majority believe:

Governments should raise taxes on the super wealthy.

The wealthy buy political and electoral influence.

Believe extreme wealth is harmful to factual media and democracy.

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A well-being economy reimagines the purpose of our economy and society to place quality of life for everyone and the sustainability of our planet at the centre.
Learn more and register for Parkland Institute’s free webinar: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Layoffs are another wound inflicted by Donald Trump. But this is how Canada can rebuild its industrial base Among the options are the government taking a stake in key industrial companies.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Industrial transformation and renewal is essential if Canada wants to weather Trump’s economic warfare. But we cannot afford to be so haphazard with public funds. Instead, we need a smarter industrial strategy.’ @policyalternatives.ca @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social

Important thread

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.

#Budget2025 analysis from @policyalternatives.ca: Major military spending will come at a huge cost to vital public programs and services. Which parties will support the minority government on this one? By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Elbows up: A practical program for Canadian sovereignty - CCPA A playbook for economic self-sufficiency. Because Canada can’t become a sovereign country by doing the same old things.

Canada needs a new playbook to establish economic self-sufficiency, post-Trump. Renewable energy, value-added industries and investing in housing and the care economy are among the keys. Co-sponsored by @policyalternatives.ca & @futurework.org.au #cdnecon www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The arsonists: The politicians stoking the fires of Western separatism - CCPA The same federal government who alienated our oil and gas industry is now putting global food security at risk by attacking the hard working agriculture producers across western Canada with an arbitra...

In the newest edition of the Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca "Western Canadian politicians have not been mere spectators as the flames of western discontent have gathered strength... No, they are the arsonists." By @simonenoch.bsky.social
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The Monitor – Fall 2025 - CCPA These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to ...

The Monitor from @policyalternatives.ca is now live! A prickly period of separatist sentiments in Alberta’s Wild Rose Country: Alberta is giving rise to a separatist movement. Why? And what lies ahead? This October 2025 Monitor looks into it.

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Ken Dryden = hockey icon. I met him once; he wanted our advice on income inequality and affordable child care. Super low key—like he hadn't processed that he was a Canadian icon. Glad he lived long enough to see $10-a-day child care implemented in Canada. He had an early hand in it.

CBC/Radio-Canada: a trusted Canadian symbol - CCPA Like many of us, I grew up with the CBC as a daily and vital part of my life.

From the summer edition of The Monitor. A snapshot of how many Canadians feel about the CBC. By @trishhennessy.ca @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants - CCPA During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partn...

Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.

For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the need for shareholder profits.

The Monitor – Summer 2025 - CCPA These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to ...

The Summer 2025 edition of the Monitor of now online!! Read it here!! @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Is the sun setting—or rising—on the CBC? - CCPA I was only a few years into my journalism career when the future began to visit the present. Newspapers were going through a hard time, and the layoffs were just starting.

New from the summer edition of the Monitor @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Gender equality was sidelined during the election. It’s time for a reset - CCPA The Liberal Party’s election win caps a remarkable reversal in its fortunes over a few short months, with Canadians placing their bet on leader Mark Carney to confront and contain American threats to ...

Election 2025 is done and women lost. The Liberals jettisoned the feminist cause to pivot from the Trudeau record; the CPCs harped on about "woke ideology". The needs and aspirations of women didn’t factor in at all. A blog. bit.ly/4m09XeZ